The biometric ID project has been halted and investigated in multiple countries, but it recently partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to verify users.

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      The problem is companies like docusign you might not have a choice not to use it, for a job for instance. This is pernicious, and will force us to hand over even more of our information, accepting a thousand page terms of service to do necessary tasks, with no government protection (none enforced even when there,) to any significant degree.

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        In sane places, large terms of service are unenforceable due to the lack of reasonable expectation that they were read and understood. The USA is just a dystopic cesspool of anti-consumerism.

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          Most of such terms were unenforceable in the US too, until around 2001 or so, and it just got worse from there. The supreme court made it official in the 10’s sometime if I recall, endorsing even making consumers or employees sign away their rights to sue to either buy something or get hired.

          All that wage theft from minimum wage workers, which exploded in the bush years, happened with employees unable to sue, instead only being able to bring a binding arbitration suit of the employer’s choosing. And knowing them they would make the claimant pay a big filing fee to start the process.

          It also used to be that if one part of such a contract was found to be illegal, the entire thing would be thrown out, not any more.

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    Oh god… They really want to track every humans on this planet. And we all know for what purposes

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    US: Are we the bad guys?

    Morgan Freeman: It was at that moment that the people realized they were.

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    An MIT Technology Review investigation reveals World’s unethical practices when onboarding test users across Africa and Asia, including deceptive marketing practices. The investigation also says that World was gathering personal data beyond iris scans, including heartbeat, breathing, and other vital signs, and doing so without obtaining meaningful informed consent.

    Insane. When businesses are building massive systems to identify and track the citizenry, the government should step in and stomp it out. Instead, the government is mandating that it proceeds.

    The system is functioning as expected. The system must be destroyed.

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    The US can do whatever they want in their country but leave the rest of us alone. We’re actually doing much better without you. It would be even better if you stopped interfering ie start an illegal war, in the name of Israel. Than we can all move on without the US.

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      the problem is, a lot of shitty laws are passing in europe (looking at you france) but havent made it through our system yet. time will tell.